Muscular Miscellaneous
3 major functions of the muscular system.
What are 1) Movement of the Body, 2) Heat Production for the Body and 3) Maintaining posture?
Type of muscle that is involuntary and makes up many of your internal organs.
Comes in from a nerve cell to remove molecules blocking active sites.
What is Calcium?
Membrane that covers an individual muscle fiber.
What is endomysium?
The neurotransmitter released into the synaptic cleft when Calcium enters the neuromuscular junction.
What is acetylcholine?
"the ability to recoil or bounce back to the original shape."
What is elasticity?
Type(s) of muscle that is/are nonstriated?
What is Smooth Muscle?
Essential to making plenty of ATP in cellular respiration.
What is oxygen?
Attaches muscle to bone.
What are tendons?
The point of insertion of the deltoid that is attached to the clavicle and the humerus.
What is the humerus?
What is voltage-gated?
Type(s) of muscle that is/are striated?
What is Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle?
Molecule that provides the myosin head for its power stroke.
What is ATP?
Covers each muscle fiber and conducts impulses.
What is the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum?
When you become out of breath and your muscles begin to burn during a workout, this is caused by a lack of ______________.
What is oxygen?
The _____________________ separates one sarcomere from another.
What are Z-discs?
Type(s) of muscle tissue that is/are involuntary and branched?
What is cardiac muscle?
During rigor mortis, _____________ floods the muscle fibers but a lack of _______________ prevents it from detaching.
What are Calcium and ATP?
Amount of ATP used in each myosin/actin cross-bridge cycle.
What is 1?
The other myofilament essential to muscle contraction besides myosin.
What is actin?
When myosin heads make a cross bridge and bend pulling the actin myofilament towards the sarcomere, it is called the ________________.
What is power stroke.
Skeletal muscle is ___________________.
Accept any:
Striated, non-branched, stacked, voluntary.
Two structures that block the active site on an actin filament?
What are troponin and tropomyosin?
Outer membrane found around the belly of the muscle.
What is epimysium?
When you do sit-ups, your rectus abdominus is the _____________________ and the latissimu dorsi is the ______________.
What are prime mover and antagonist?